McKinley High School - Nugget Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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THE CARNATION to the Reform School for at least slx months my txme s valuable I can t come back here every day Mr Wanger replxed the Judge the funct1on of the juvemle Court IS to correct not to pumsh That evenm Harry brooded over h1s troubles untxl he finally fell asleep from sheer exhaustlon In the mornmg as he was passlng one of the guards who was readlng a paper he saw the head11nes Multl m1ll1ona1re W H Wanger MlSSlHg No Clew Obtamable After ten fmnutes reHect1on Harry recalled the last words h1s mother had sa1d to h1m Always be truthful my son I want to see the Judge I want to see the Jud e' he crred and made an attempt to run to the office You cannot' was the reply you must wa1t a few days Not dlsheartened by these words he pleaded and pleaded unt11 Hnally he was taken to court As they entered the door Harry tore away from h1s guard and called Judge judge let me tell Well what IS It young man? asked the Judge The other mght after they threw me out I lxstened and heard them say son-e nng bout Wanger and kxdnappmg Before that they told me to steal whatever I could lay hands on Go to I6 South Thlrd Street w1th some cops as soon as you can The Judge ordered a squad of pollcemen to that address led by Harry As they approached the ne1ghborhood they went through an alley and cllmbed over a fence surroundmg a dmgy hut pomted out by Harry Upon knock1ng they recelved no answer and proceeded to pound 1n the door whlch yxelded to the sturdy blows of the olhcers When the door fell they saw Mr Wanger bound hand and foot and three of the an A week later the tr1a1 of these men came up 1n the Crrmmal Court and as Harry was on the wxtness stand tellmg h1s story a letter was brought m addressed to hmm The judge wlth Harry s consent opened and read It xt was from Mrs Stevenson and stated that she had recovered and would be home wxthm a week It was dlscovered that the gang had commltteed many other cr1mes Bach of the prlsoners was sent to Jall for dlfferent perlods accordlng to h1s offense jack Stevenson was sentenced for l1fe on a murder charge Mr Wanger was so pleased wlth Harry for causxng h1s early llbera t1on that he took hlm and h1s mother to l1ve 1n the beautiful Wanger resldence and now Harry Cratcher IS worklng to the top wxth the firm of Wan er 8: Scupper regarded as one of the best Flrm of lawyers 1n the state of Ill1no1s Gustavus Buder T t'll I I 9 l ' 1 Y I 7 H ,, vu - - as ' ' ' S 9 ' ' 57 , . O' b ' Y . . H . of Y 7 . . . . . . H . . , - . , . . . ' Sb Y 7! 9 3 ' N . . O' ,, . a b ' Y sn 97 Ki ' 17 . , - - y w 9 is n 7, ! F 7 ' GI ' ' 3, ' y 1 - ' U . . I 5 L, . R . . I .t. a . , ' C Y VV ! ' 9 l O' 7 ' 1 , . ' 9 V o' cr. za za Y ! . . . . , ' 1 1 7 ' 7 , . . . . . . 9 . , cr U . t, v wen y- ' uw'-e

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Tl-IE CARNATION to my Vl6VV'S lt IS partly to my parents and perhaps mostly to one sxn cere frlend who at the t1me I got th1s pos1t1on I know must have glven me good recommendatlons If I should be fortunate enough to get the chance to go to colle e and st1l1 be able to contmue my work Wlthlll and wxthout school as successfully as I have done ln the past I shall always be consclous of the fact that I certamly owe most of my educatlon to thls one partlcular person for lf I had not secured that posrtlon just 1n the mck of t1me all my hopes of ever gomg through day hxgh school would have been lost R E D Truth S V1ctory One CV6I1ll1g about elght o clock 1n front of a large OEICC bulldmg m one of the progresslve cltles of the Mlddle West stood Harry Cratcher sellmg papers When Harry was five years old h1s father had died of con umptlon Several years later Harrys mother remarrled becommg the wxfe of a man named Jack Stevenson thxs was not because she especlally cared for Stevenson but because she needed support Whlle nurs1n her first husband Mrs Stevenson contracted the dreadful dlsease and three years later had to be sent out West to a sanltarlum among the rnountams of Colorado Harry s stepfather whose true char acter had been kept from Mrs Stevenson went wlth Harry to lxve ln the hangout of a gang of thlves to which he belonged As Harry was trylng to sell hrs papers the words You better brmg home somethmg worth whlle tomght you young brat and lf you squeal on me lt wlll be the last thmg you ever do' kept gomg through h1s m1nd These were the words whlch Stevenson uttered as he turned Harry out of the house at half past six He had almost concluded to run away from town when a well dressed man W1ll1 m Wanger hurr1ed 1nto the cor ldor of the bu1ld1ng Stealthlly Harry crept up behmd and reached h1s hand mto the coat pocket of the wealthy man who feelmg thls swung around wlth h1s Est and knocked Harry to the Hoor A officer who happened to be pass1ng the bu1ld1n took charge of the unfortunate boy The next mornmg at eleven oclock a sherxff called out m the Juvemle Court State vs Cratcher' As the case proceeded the Judge heaped a great number of questlons upon Harry none of whlch were answered becau e he remember the words of h1s stepfather Fmally the judge sald to an oFHcer Take hlm to the House of Deten txon for a few days probably he wlll make up h1s mmd to tell us some thmg by that t1me What' snapped Wanger The young cr1m1nal ou ht to be sent 9 v ' 9 7 D 0' . . an ' Y ! 1 , . . . . , . . . Y Y y . . , . . , . e .. . , , 7 , . . . 0' to a - 9 ' Y - , , ' v . . H . 9 ! 9 1 . . . ,, . . , . v ' v 3 s . V. . . . . I . 1 9 v . fl ' . . . U bn . , . . 1 1 1 ' 64 99 ' 1 - - , s 1 , S . . . . H . - D : - . . ,, as vs gg - - cr cr . . 5 Twf-nty-Two

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THE CARNATION On the Road to Success A g1rl who was obllged by clrcumstances to leave McKinley and take a short preparatory course for teachxng m rural schools wrote the followrng letter to a frrend here wlthout any thought of publncatron It shows plamly the enthusiasm that leads to success and The Carna tlon believes that 1ts readers w1ll be lnterested 1n seexng lt St Louls Mo March 26 1916 Dear Mlss Probably you will be surprlsed to ind that I am st11l rn the land of the lrvmg because I havent Wrltten for so long But really I ve been so busy that I don t have t1me to wrlte I have been teachmg smce September whxle Mamma worked mn an office and Grandma stayed w1th the chlldren But Grandma dred sud denly two weeks ago and of course thmgs are worse than ever now As I dont thlnk of anythrng but school I cant Write about any thmg else To begln wlth every body d1d h1s best to scare me They told me harr ralsmg tales of the puplls I would have That K boy xs slmply msane youll have George B and you know about that family and that blg S boy you know the horse butchers son and that W boy IS as w1ld as they make them and so on and so forth as long as I would llsten I sald to myself Well maybe the rest wrll murder me but l1ttle Wxlde w1l1 be the worst He used to come and play 1n our back yard ard I hated to think of what he would do to my d1SClpl1l'1C But he dld not greet me wlth Hello Ann and he behaved beautlfully He was well coached at home but the rest weren t Most of the A class were ten or twelve years old Cm second grade' and considerably older ln experlence They sald thmgs that slmply stunned me George B m partzcular always started such messy sub jects 1n our conversatron perxod Im not very iinxcky but when a second grader glves me the detalls of the best way to k1ll a calf that s a l1tt1e too much Flnally I got at the explanatlon he works for a butcher untll 8 p m every day and the butcher lets h1m help the men ln the slaughter house' ust xmagme trylng to teach that boy the ordx nary sxmple mnocent chlld thmgs' I had the gang of b1g tough boys and s1x pronounced deficnents one very very bad And I never call anybody bad rf I can help It There was one boy who was reported deficlent and who puzzled me very much He got to be a wonder 1n arlthmetlc but seemed terr1b1y self conscrous when he tr1ed to read Frnally I found the clew He had been told he was a fool and the whole famxly accepted that as a fact I beheve I earned thelr eternal love and gratltude when I d1d say he was all rlght Really I dldn t have any trouble at all wlth those Bad boys The boy who had been tormented half to death because he was Irlsh naturally approved of me And of course every boy rn the d1str1ct knew and llked Papa A perfectly n1ce g1rl from town xs a mysterxous bemg probably a secret enemy but the whole crowd sxmply took lt for granted . a , . , - . , ., , . . . , L , v - v , . . V 7 9 9 ' , . . , . ! 1 . , . . . . . H . . . , v is . . , s 1 ' 1 X ' ' 77 '11 r 1 . H . . Y 7 9 . . ,, . ' i . . , ' IC 97 ' 9 s - 7 , . . . . . , . - v . . . , . . , U . . . ,, . , . , -. , . . I ' x - 1 , . ' 7 ' KC 11 , . ' s v ' . - U ,, . . . ' s D Twenty-l-'our